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Multi-chaptered.

Multi-Saku

Chapters mostly based on closest Holiday

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Just a little Halloween story for all of you! Happy Halloween!

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Shadows haunted me at every turn.

Spirits whispered in my ear every second.

Demons followed me around every corner.

The light was never with me… only darkness. This darkness wrapped up my entire being long ago- my insides turned cold and my outside became dead. I was like a walking corpse. A zombie. The light never came for me, never so much as peeked around my way. The darkness overtook me and I was shrouded in it since the accident.

My mind was dead, but my body was alive and walking. I couldn't feel, couldn't sleep, couldn't think. I was empty inside, and nothing would ever change that. Since that fateful day, my life has been a meaningless pit. That accident was a black hole that sucked my entire being away- my dreams, hopes… all shattered and gone with the wind. I felt like the living dead- which is what I am now, and nothing will ever be the same as it was before the accident.

:Fall, October 31, 1833:

:9:32 pm:

*Unknown POV*

My knees were wet and muddy, just like my hands. My cheeks felt sticky and my eyes were sore. Rain was beating down on my back and head like it never had before. I ignored the flashes of lightening and the booming sound of thunder, keeping my eyes focused on the carved stone in front of me. I ran my muddy fingertips across the engraving.

'R.I.P' It read. My fingers drifted lower to the name underneath. 'Lillian Elizabeth Haruno' My mother.

'A good woman, an excellent mother, and a wife from April 8, 1801- October 31, 1832' Just 'a wife'. Not a good or excellent one.

She had died only a year ago, on this very day. In this very spot. They buried her body before she was even dead. My mother had gotten into a fight with my father. I don't know what happened or why it happened… all I know is she attacked my father and he defended himself. He stabbed her right in the heart with a stake.

She hadn't died instantly, though. It took a few hours.

I know I shouldn't be crying over my dead mother who tried to kill my father, but I can't help it. I loved my father- love my father more than I loved her and I feel bad about that, so I try to make it up by coming to her grave. I did love her. How could I not? But when I saw my father after they had a fight one month prior to the day she died… he was bitten on his neck. I knew she caused it and I knew it wasn't an average love mark- it was bleeding and right on his pulse mark.

Ever since that day, my love for mother has lessened- and it continues to lessen, though I try not to let it, now- and my father has changed. His skin has gotten paler, his eyes have started to change color- from red to black to his usual blue.

I noticed my brother, Satoshi, who hated my mother ever since he was born (nearly bit her neck off when she tried to feed him, once) had started to hate father, though I don't understand why.

"Sakura," A deep, familiar voice spoke my name. I turned from the gravestone of my mother and came face to face with my brother. Speak of the devil, and he shall appear.

"Yes, brother?" I asked, getting up from my kneeling position on the ground and patting my skirts down, trying, and failing, to wipe off the mud and dirt that had collected on the silken red fabric of the Victorian dress.

"You shouldn't be out alone at this hour, not in this horrid rain, either." My brother, Satoshi as I said before, spoke. His black eyebrows were together in a form of worry, and his bright, sea blue eyes showed nothing but concern. Satoshi's eyes stood out in the rain like a forest fire in the night- such a dazzling blue.

"I apologize, brother," I bowed my head in shame. I hated when he looked at me like that. Makes me feel so guilty. "I… merely came to visit mother." When I looked back up at Satoshi, the concern in his eyes was replaced with a fiery hate- his lips curled up in a growl and he glared at the stone above our mothers grave.

"That woman," He spat the word like it was venom on his tongue, "deserves no respect. No pity. Forget about her, our lives are better now." He told me.

The only time Satoshi got that look was when he thought about mother, and recently it's been father too. He looked like all he wanted to do was revive her just so he could kill her again. I don't doubt he does.

"Let us go, my sister. You know today is the day of the demons. There is that rumor going around about the bloody witch giving curses to those out when the moon strikes its brightest and fullest." The hate disappeared from his eyes as they focused back on me. He held out his hand and I put my muddied palm onto his, clasping my fingers around his hand as he did the same to mine.

We were both drenched with the rain and it was pouring off us in rivers. Satoshi's fancy black suit was ruined, for sure. We could buy him a new one, of course, but I loved that suit on him. It brought out his eyes more than any other piece of cloth.

My dress was most definitely more ruined than his, what with the mud stains all over the white corset and middle ruffles. I don't think I should make the maids try and clean this horrific stain.

Brother and I walked out of the graveyard, the man on watch bowing to us as we left. Walking down the rocky pathway, we passed many houses and residents of the houses outside doing things to protect their work and make sure the roof stays over their heads. Each one of them bowed low to us as we passed.

The rain continued to pour on our heads as quickly walked back to the palace. We reached the gate, and the guards let us in instantly- recognizing who we were. Maids ushered out with black umbrellas in their hands and put them up quickly, holding the umbrellas over our heads to keep any more rain from hitting us, not that it mattered, considering we were already soaked to the bone.

The big metal doors with the Haruno clan symbol and the Naito family symbol (My fathers crest and my mothers maiden name crest)- a circle and a demonic looking sword- were opened for us by the inside guards so we could instantly walk in. Maids and butlers greeted us in rows along with the guards, and right in front of us, in the middle of the line of maids and butlers, stood my father, looking as pale as ever.

He had disappeared eight days ago- I didn't know why he left or where he went- and the last time I saw him, his eyes were blood red. Now, though, they were the same bright blue eyes brother has.

"Papa?" I called, surprised at seeing him. He smiled and I ran towards him, ready to engulf him in a hug. I could feel Satoshi's arm shoot out to try and stop me, but I was already in Papa's arms by then. I hugged him around his waist tight and buried my head into the ruffles of his white undershirt- which was actually the only thing he wore.

"My darling, I've missed you." Papa kissed the top of my (larger than normal) forehead and wrapped his arms around my upper body, holding me close to his chest. Papa was the leader of this village- the leader of Yamiichi, the city of Darkness. It was very unusual for him to ever leave the city unexpected.

"You're back." I heard Satoshi growl. Without even looking at him, I could tell he was glaring daggers at Papa.

"Aren't you happy to see me, my son?" Papa asked, looking over my head to see Satoshi- the both of us still drenching wet. The only response Papa received was another growl. I don't understand why Satoshi started hating Papa. He has ever since mother had bit Papa. When I asked him, he only told me that mother was a disease and Papa had been infected. I knew he wasn't sick, of course.

"Ah, darling and son, you are both soaked to the bone with rain!" Papa exclaimed as I released him. Some of the water from my clothes had attached onto Papa's and thus soaked his white dress undershirt as well.

Papa's undershirt was white- as I had said- and had the fancy ruffles at the chest peak of the collar and going down the buttons to the end of the shirt. His shirt was not tucked into his black trousers and his thick black boots were covering the ends of the trousers. Since he still had his shoes on, he must have just recently arrived.

"Yes, I was visiting mother and it was raining. I did not think to bring an umbrella." I answered, looking down at the mud on my dress. Papa wasn't happy I had visited mother, but his distasted look soon vanished to be replaced by a grin.

"Well, go take a bath and then change into your nightgown and go to bed. It's very late, you know." Papa told me. I nodded, and then hugged him once more before leaving to the bathroom.

A maid had already drawn the bath and my pink silk nightgown was folded neatly on the counter near the bath.

I stripped of my muddy and wet clothing, letting the dress fall to floor, and slowly got into the hot water in the tub, sighing in content as the heated liquid soothed my tense and aching muscles. Earlier today I had been training by myself. I always secretly practiced fighting with daggers and swords, though I know Papa would kill me if he found out. The training if fun, yet it wears me out and makes my muscles ache. At least I'm able to fight- and one of the only women who can.

"Sakura?" I recognized Satoshi's voice through the bathroom door and heard a light knocking sound on the door.

"You may come in." I said. I was fully in the water, so brother would not be able to see my nude body. Satoshi opened the bathroom door and walked in, closing it lightly behind him as if he didn't want to be heard. He was the same Satoshi... but something felt a little off about him.

"Is there something you needed?" I asked, turning my full attention towards Satoshi. He never disturbed me when I was in the washroom, so this was clearly unusual.

Satoshi turned away from the door and walked towards me, pulling a small stool from the vanity over to the tub, and sitting on top of it so he was facing me. His rain-covered clothes were gone, now replaced by a simple black silk shirt that very much resembled fathers undershirt, minus the ruffles, and he wore dark, navy blue trousers with bare feet.

"…Tell me, sister, if you could, would you live forever?" Satoshi asked, stunning me. It was an odd question, indeed. No one has ever asked or even thought of such a thing like that. I gave his question some thought.

"I… I don't know. In a way, yes. I would love to see what the future holds and so and such, yet I would not want to outlive my family. I would not want to out live you and Papa." I answered truthfully. I could never imagine a world without them. If they were to die suddenly, my heart would break and I would no longer be me.

Satoshi looked up at me with a smile- a true, genuine smile. It had been so long since I had seen one, it was a breath of fresh air. "What if father and I could live forever with you?" He asked. Another puzzling question.

"Then yes. I would love to live forever, so long as you two would stay with me, right by my side." I told him, smiling right back. The first time he had ever said 'father' without gagging or choking. "Brother, what is with these questions? Why?" I asked him.

"Just… curious." He smirked, before getting up off the chair and pushing it back to where he got it. He came over to me and kissed my head, whispering "Goodnight, princess." into my ear and then leaving just as silently as he had come.

I shook my head in confusion once the door closed. 'I will never understand him,' I thought to myself as I finished up my bath and changed into my nightgown.

One of the many maids braided my hair back and tied the back of my nightgown, before leaving me to sleep. I got into my large, purple silk covered bed (silk was, after all, very popular and expensive in our country. It'd only be natural for the royal family to have much of it.) and fell into a dreamless sleep.

:2:55 am:

I was woken up by the slight sound of my door creaking open in my room, and then the feel of a dip on my right side of the bed. I turned over and found Papa lying there staring at me.

"P…Papa?" I asked, trying to rub the sleepiness from my eyes. I saw him smile with the light of the full moon.

"Sweetheart, you told your brother that you would want to live forever if everyone you loved could live with you, no?" He asked, propped up on the bed with one elbow.

"Yes, I said that. How did you know?" I asked, becoming slightly suspicious. Something just wasn't right.

"I'll explain later. Right now… I'm going to make your wishes come true." He whispered. There was a blur of blue and silver before I felt something moist on my neck. Papa was biting my neck just as he had bitten mothers.

I could feel all the blood from my body leave and go into his mouth. I heard moaning noises coming from him and his cold hands grasped my neck, pulling it closer to his mouth. I started to feel dizzy and he released me.

"You can live with us forever, now, Sakura. Just you, Satoshi and I. We'll be together forever." He whispered. My world was starting to fade as my vision got darker and blurrier.

"Papa… Wh-what did…" My voice was fading, "What did… you do?" I managed to get out before losing my voice. I didn't sound like I was fourteen, but rather a young six year old my voice felt so weak.

"I turned you into an Immortal. We can be together forever, now! Forever."

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End of chapter. Multisaku and AkaSaku come next chapter.

Review. Not incest. Just cute n' fluffy.